PERSPECTIVE By Sally I. Kennedy

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful." Hebrews 10:23

Sorting through fifty years of stuff was an incredible journey back in time through our parents' earthly sojourn. My sister and I were sitting on the living room sofa, which still had the arm covers on it. Boxes of photos and letters and saved treasures were mounded up around us. We always joked about there being a lot to go through after Dad died, especially that attic!

We talked and cried, and it was evident how my sister sees and remembers things about our Dad one way, while I remember another. We were kids who grew up in the same family, yet viewed and related to our mom and dad in different ways.

Our dad was the same person always. Whether with my sister or with me, he was still "Daddy". Our different views of him did not change who he was at all. It was just our perspective.

That may be how God's klds, brothers and sisters in the church, view and relate to God. Individually. Perhaps the views and relationships to God are from very different perspectives.

Yet God is ALWAYS the same, unswerving and unchanging. Faithful. El Shaddai. El Elyon Adonai. The much loved hymn, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, says there is no shadow of turning with Him. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Isn't it SO wonderful that in our lives, where everything is constantly changing, there is something/Someone who is not? It is a great comfort to me; a foundation on which to safely build and live.

Yes, that is good news.

Sally I. Kennedy is the author of "Irish Thursdays", "Words from the
Heart", and "52 Little Parables from Ireland" . She lives in south
Florida, with her husband Ben.